1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Institute for the Languages of Finland
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Estonian and Livonian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
Heippa
3.11 I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Africa
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
20.00 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.20 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
11.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
isiXhosa
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
isiXhosa
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Finnish
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic